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Alderman Jason C. Ervin’s July 2026 newsletter lists community events rather than zoning, housing, transit, or budget actions; the only related public meeting mentioned is the Garfield Park Community Strategic Townhall (July 30, 2026, 6:30 PM at the Garfield Park Gold Dome). It also promotes summer programming including pool parties (Aug. 5 at Fosco Park and Aug. 6 at Garfield Park), late-night basketball, back-to-school rallies/events, National Night Out (Aug. 4), and Movies in the Parks. Additional highlights include Back-to-School/peace and community days, Narcan training (July 31), and multiple neighborhood festivals and markets through August and September.

Alderman Jason C. Ervin’s July 2026 newsletter primarily promotes community events and information sessions rather than specific zoning/development, transit, housing, parking, street-safety, or budget actions. The only major city planning item noted is “Public Hearings on Proposed FY2027 Capital Plan” with sessions on July 22–23, 2026. Other highlighted announcements include a Department of Gun Violence Reduction community teach-in (July 22), Chicago Tech Week programming (July 23), multiple housing/resource fairs and down payment assistance (Chicago Neighborhood Recovery Program), and several back-to-school and neighborhood events including Taste of the Hatchery (July 25) and the Chicago Gospel Music Festival (July 24–25 at Millennium Park).

Alderman Jason C. Ervin’s 28th Ward Weekender newsletter focuses on community events only, with no listed meetings/hearings or policy, zoning, budget, transit, or street-safety items. It highlights multiple July 17–18 activities and resources in the ward, including Cooling Centers and Senior/Community Service center hours, events like Pupapalooza, an Iced Tea Social, several block parties, and “Talk at the Table” on July 18.

Alderman Jason C. Ervin’s July 2026 newsletter focuses on community events rather than specific zoning, housing, transit, street safety, or budget hearings/ordinances. It highlights neighborhood programming and services across the 28th Ward, including Garfield Park Natural Area stewardship walks/workdays, Homecourt+ Fridays, multiple community bashes and fairs (blood drive, health fair, youth events), the MCMF Safe Spaces speaker series, TECHICAGO Week (7/23), and the Chicago Mayor’s Youth Commission Youth Summit (7/25). Other major announcements include cooling centers/senior and service center hours and events such as the Chicago Police Department tip line and Cook County down payment assistance reopening on 7/20.

Alderman Jason C. Ervin’s newsletter (28th Ward) is primarily community outreach and event announcements, with no described zoning, development approvals, housing/transit/streets policy votes, or budget decisions. It highlights resources and programs including summer pool parties (July 8–9), free record relief (July 9), community violence intervention grant funding (application period July 1–Aug. 3, 2026), Garfield Park Neighborhood Market dates, and multiple job and hiring events and community fairs. Other major items include a Cook County community violence intervention grant notice, a “Preparing for Homeownership” session (July 14), a Job & Volunteer Fair (July 15), and Stronger Together’s annual community blood drive (July 17).

This July 2026 newsletter from Ald. Jason C. Ervin (28th Ward) highlights two Community Budget Feedback sessions on Wednesday, July 1 (virtual) and Tuesday, July 7 (in person at Roosevelt High School), plus Movies in the Parks and other community programming (e.g., Late Night Basketball, Teens in the Park, and the “Clear Your Record” event). It also includes a holiday garbage schedule for Independence Day with no service on Friday, July 3 and service on the following days, along with additional announcements such as Brookfield Zoo free days and CPD/National organizations’ community events (e.g., Beloved Community Bash on July 10 and the Spirit of Nelson Mandela on July 11).

Alderman Jason C. Ervin (28th Ward) shared an Extreme Heat Warning for Chicago, advising residents to expect dangerously hot conditions with heat index values around 105°. The newsletter contains no other zoning, housing, transit, budget, or street-related meetings, policy changes, or approvals, and it does not mention additional events.

Alderman Jason C. Ervin’s June 2026 newsletter primarily promotes community events and constituent resources in/around the 28th Ward, including a “Removing Barriers” Resource Fair (June 25), a 2027 Chicago Youth Budget Roundtable (June 25), Girls Who Code/Youth activities, and several market and workforce development events. It does not list any specific aldermanic meetings, zoning/development/housing/transit/budget hearings, or policy/ordinance actions, nor any street-safety or long-term transit funding decisions—mostly event and program announcements for residents. Key other items include the West Side Workforce Development & Career Fair (June 27) and National HIV Testing Day (June 30).

Alderman Jason C. Ervin’s June 2026 newsletter highlights a 28th Ward quarterly Senior Community Meeting (June 18) and a Monthly Police Board meeting (June 18). It also publicizes community and city events including Juneteenth celebrations (June 19–20), a citywide job fair (June 17), multiple free museum pass/outreach programs, and youth activities like late-night basketball and Girls Night In. Additional announcements include OEMC storm-related damage assessment information for June 10–11 thunderstorms, the Next Stage Chicago program application deadline (July 8), and deadlines for the Neighborhood Access Program (July 1) and other resource fairs.

Alderman Jason C. Ervin’s newsletter promotes a live comedy event featuring Def Comedy Jam and Martin’s “Bruh Man,” taking place at CineCity Studios Chicago on June 19, 2026 at 7:30 PM, with tickets urged before they sell out. The email frames it as a Juneteenth celebration and does not mention any zoning, housing, transit, budget, or street-safety meetings, policy changes, or approvals.

Alderman Jason C. Ervin (28th Ward) shared information from the City’s Office of Emergency Management & Communications encouraging residents to complete a voluntary Residential Self-Assessment survey via text if they contacted 3-1-1 about storm damage from June 10–11; the city says it is not a scam and uses the data to help pursue potential additional assistance. No zoning, development, housing, transit, budget, or street policy/approval items were included in this newsletter. The message primarily focuses on storm damage reporting and survey completion.

The provided “June 2026” newsletter content contains only the email header/signature for Alderman Jason C. Ervin (28th Ward) and does not include any details about meetings/hearings, ordinances, development or zoning approvals, budget/infrastructure decisions, long-term transit changes, or street-safety projects. The newsletter is titled “Storm Recovery: Service Updates, Contacts & Resources,” but no specific service updates, policy actions, or events are included in the text provided.

Alderperson Jason C. Ervin’s June 2026 newsletter focuses on community programming rather than formal zoning, development, housing, transit, or budget hearings, and it does not list any specific policy changes or ordinances. The only directly development-related item is a “Start of Construction Ceremony” for C.A.R.E. Manor Affordable Housing Development on June 14. It also highlights multiple West Side summer and neighborhood events, including free/low-cost youth and teen activities at the YMCA/Planet Fitness, Juneteenth flag raising and celebrations (June 16 and June 19–20), a Level Up youth program at Austin Town Hall (June 13), and the DC12 Monthly Meeting “Reshaping Public Safety Together” (June 16).

Alderman Jason C. Ervin’s June 2026 newsletter focuses on the Bank of America Chicago 13.1 Marathon and the West Side Wellness Fest in Garfield Park, including the Saturday June 6 and Sunday June 7 event schedule. It details Sunday, June 7 street closures (5:30 a.m.–11 a.m.), no-parking rules and towing starting at 1 a.m., plus an I-290 Independence Boulevard exit closure from 5 a.m.–11:30 a.m., and related parking/traffic routing guidance for the West Side.

Ald. Jason C. Ervin (28th Ward) highlights multiple June 2026 “Budget Engagement” roundtables at Malcolm X College, Harry S. Truman, and Kennedy-King College. The newsletter also spotlights community events including the West Side Wellness Fair (weekly), West Side Wellness Fest, Blues Fest, the Chicago Blues Festival/First Friday series, Homegrown (Building Legacies), and gun-violence–focused walks and youth hiring/fair activities.

In this newsletter, Alderman Jason C. Ervin (28th Ward) announces the Chicago Park District Garfield Park Baseball Groundbreaking Ceremony on Tuesday, June 2 at noon for a new artificial-turf ballfield at Jackson Blvd. & Hamlin Blvd., replacing an existing diamond for Garfield Park Little League (serving 500+ youth). Other details include benches, bleachers, and batting cages, with no zoning, housing, transit, budget, or street policy actions mentioned.

Alderman Jason C. Ervin (28th Ward) shared information for the Bank of America Chicago 13.1 Marathon on Sunday, June 7, with the course and events centered in Garfield Park and including loops through Douglass and Humboldt Parks. The newsletter focuses on event logistics—street closures from 5:30 a.m. to 11 a.m., no-parking enforcement beginning early Sunday (towing from 1 a.m.), and an I-290 Independence Blvd. exit closure from 5 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.—along with the Saturday, June 6 West Side Wellness Fest. No zoning, housing, transit policy changes, ordinances, budget actions, or other development decisions are mentioned.

Ald. Jason C. Ervin (28th Ward) announced multiple upcoming community and resource events, including a Budget Engagement series roundtables on June 3, June 6, and June 16, and a Welcome Home Housing Access and Inclusion Fair on June 3. The newsletter also publicizes housing- and job-focused initiatives such as Chicago Youth Works summer job applications (deadline May 29) and City program/career opportunities (e.g., Hospitality Hires Chicago on May 28). Other major dates include Saddle Up Showcase (May 28) at an Austin Town Hall, the Chicago Blues Festival (June 4–7), and an It’s Your Park Day event at Brookfield Zoo (May 30), plus a Reparations Taskforce survey deadline of May 31.

Alderman Jason C. Ervin’s 28th Ward Weekender contains no reported zoning/development/housing/transit/budget meetings, ordinances, development approvals, or long-term transit/street-safety actions. It focuses instead on ward and citywide announcements, including the Memorial Day garbage schedule (no pickup Monday, May 25) and upcoming community events such as the Mental Health Summit (May 23), Peace Pop-Up (May 22), and Rock the Block Glow-Up (May 22), plus a citywide CARE mental health response update and a Reparations Taskforce survey deadline of May 31, 2026.

Alderman Jason C. Ervin (28th Ward) promoted several community events and employment/youth programs, including the May 21, 2026 NextGen Career Expo, the CityArts program with a June 3, 2026 application deadline, and Summer Day Camp running June 22–July 31. The newsletter also highlights “It’s Your Park Day” on May 30, a Mental Health Summit on May 23, and multiple boxing/open-mic and career/job fair events in late May. No zoning, housing, transit, budget, or street policy/hearing items were mentioned in this newsletter.